Written by

Jim Stabile
| Outdoors Columnist

They bagged 15,144 deer from Sept. 14-Oct. 25. That was 95 more than in 2012, and 4,380 were bucks, up from 3,600 last year.

The permit bow season that started Oct. 26 harvested 5,679 additional deer in the first 18 days, 667 more than during that period last year, when Sandy interrupted. This season runs through December in some zones, ends today in others. ...